Somebody once said that climbing Everest is a challenge, but the bigger challenge would be to climb it and not tell anybody. The same is probably true for running a marathon. Would you admit that you’re only running a marathon…

It’s been an age since I last blogged, life gets in the way and with a new full-time job (that was a shock to the system after working part-time for nearly 10 years) blogging wasn’t really a priority. Since my…

OK, here we go. Again! Christmas and New Year is over and my marathon training plan is go! I’ve got 12 and a half weeks to get marathon fit since my goal race is the Greater Manchester Marathon on the…

Injury does a funny thing to you. I’m sitting here on Monday evening and I’m actually looking forward to my first cross country (XC) race of the season this Saturday. The weather has already turned blummin’ freezing, and in typical…

I’m injured. Not actually a running injury but it is stopping me from running (boo, hiss). It started a couple of weeks ago just before the Manchester Half Marathon with the flemmy throat, but apart from that I didn’t actually…

Whilst I’m inspired by the UTMB I’ve never actually wanted to do it – a fact Kev is probably eternally grateful for – but when Kev suggested that we take this year’s holiday in the Northern Alps about two weeks…

That’s it January is done, so well done on completing January! It’s time to brace yourself for another month of commitment in February, so let’s jump back on the motivation train and get those weekly distance challenges underway. Let’s get…

The first three weeks of Conkers Run Fantastic have flown by. Just a month ago we we’re wondering how many, and what type of weekly workouts we’d do for January and now it’s time to up our game for another…

We’re two weeks in and the mojo train is flying along like a madman on a camel! But it’s time to start thinking about February and in particular your targets for February. To set your targets log into the spreadsheet and…